The 57-year-old company puts on a very good show that reaches its thrilling peak with the famed acrobatics of the men, who run, jump and turn on their toes and knees. Many of the pieces, choreographed by the company director, Tengiz Sukhishvili, and Ilia Sukhishvili Jr., his son, are rooted in very old traditional dances and music. But one of the things that set the Georgians apart is the abstraction of the dancing. No attempts are made to suggest the farmlands, village squares and homely rituals of other folk programs.

Every ballet lover knows George Balanchine, but not many are aware that the great choreographer and dancer was Georgian. Fewer still know that Georgians are the only male dancers in the world able to dance on their tiptoes while wearing supple leather ballet shoes.

All of this will become clear with the staging of the spectacular "Georgian Legend" show, which demonstrates the great influence Georgian folk dances had on Balanchine.

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